Emergence of African-Owned Esports Circuits Around Local Games

TLDR

• If that vision is realised, Warlordes may one day be remembered not simply as a game, but as one of the early milestones in the emergence of truly African esports.
• It may represent the moment African developers stopped asking for a place within global esports and instead began building a competitive future of their own.
• The next chapter may see the continent produce world-class esports ecosystems powered by African intellectual property.
• For more than two decades, African esports has largely been built on games developed elsewhere.
• Too often, African game development has been measured by whether local studios can create entertaining games capable of attracting downloads.